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JULIE MOYA
RICHARD SLATTERY
Julie Moya, the reputed madam of a Manhattan hooker ring, vows she will surrender to the law as soon as she takes care of her many pets in Long Island.
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Sunday, January 30, 2005
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Sunday, January 30, 2005
CHET GORDON DAILY NEWS
But in an exclusive interview, Moya, 47, said
she is furious at
allegations that
she recruited unBY PAUL H.B. SHIN
derage girls to
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serve her clients.
“There were never any underage girls. Never,
never, ever,” said Moya, whose brothels in midtown and house in Long Island were raided by
cops Thursday amid 25 arrests.
“One time when an underage girl came to us,
we immediately threw her out,” said Moya. A
close friend has described Moya as a “hooker
with a heart of gold.”
“Underage girls — that’s no good,” she said. “I
would never agree to that.”
“I ask them for IDs and try to make sure
they’re of age.”
Moya promised to turn herself in to cops today, but only after she makes sure the menagerie
of pets at her home in Freeport, L.I., will be
cared for.
“If I turn myself in, I’m hoping they give me a
decent bail,” she said. “I’m not a murderer or a
child molester. That underage [allegation] got to
me because I have kids too.”
Her alleged hooker ring — Julie’s of New York
City — advertised itself on a Web site featuring
young women posing in provocative lingerie.
Customers were charged $200 to $400 for various sex acts, authorities said.
Moya admitted her role as a madam, and even
sports a license plate on her car that reads:
“JULIE NY.” But she disputed the claim that her
prostitution ring was a $3 million-a-year operation.
“Believe it or not, I don’t have much money,”
she told The News. “I literally take all the money
I have and save stray animals and take them to
vets.”
Moya said the reason she did not turn herself
in at Manhattan’s 7th Precinct stationhouse Friday as promised was because she was trying to
find homes for her pets, including cats, dogs, parrots and turtles.
Moya, who got her start as an exotic dancer in
Cincinnati, said she can’t understand why authorities chose to crack down now on a business
that has been an open secret for a decade.
“It’s the oldest game in town. We don’t hurt
anyone. We just offer pleasure,” she said. “It’s
something that will never stop no matter what.
So if it’s run properly, I don’t understand why
they don’t legalize it.”
“New York has always been known for fun, 24
hours a day,” she continued. “It’s almost become
like living in Ohio, where I was born, and I left
for that reason.”
“I love the business and I’m sorry it had to end
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Fazila Verni helps daughter Antonia work through exercises
in their Cliffside Park, N.J., home. Antonia was paralyzed after
drunk driver Daniel Lanzaro (opposite page), on his way home
from a Giants game, rammed into family’s car in Oct. 1999.
Pictured right, Antonia just hours before fateful crash.
painted in pink and purple. They are Antonia’s favorite colors.
“I just wanted to liven things up for her,”
Ron Verni says, smiling faintly as his daughter’s ventilator beeps in the background. A
few days after Antonia was born — a month
premature — at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Ron Verni went to a 26th St. florist and
bought his baby daughter 1,000 pink roses. He is an accountant by trade. He hasn’t
worked in that vocation, or any other, since
Oct. 24, 1999.
It was a day that began with Ron and
Fazila Baksh-Verni leaving their Cliffside
Park home, taking 2-year-old Antonia on a
pumpkin-picking trip to New Hope, Pa., and
30-year-old Daniel Lanzaro leaving his
skill home and purchasing a six-pack of
eken at 10:30 in the morning. Lanzaro
ed to Giants Stadium, scalping a ticket
e the Giants play the Saints. By 4 p.m.,
iants had their most lopsided home vicn a decade, a 31-3 romp. By 5:45, at the
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THE FUGITIVE MADAM accused of
running a multimillion dollar prostitution ring admitted yesterday that she
presided over a chain of deluxe pleasure dens in Manhattan.
“I know prostitution is not a legal
thing, but we’re the friendliest, the
nicest, the best that there is in New
York City as far as that goes,” Julie
Moya told the Daily News.
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DAILY NEWS
She will be a first-grader, and she can
hardly wait.
“The best part will be being with other kids,” Antonia says, her voice sweet and
small, her head tilted back in her chair. She
is sitting in the TV room of the family home,
a turreted colonial in a quiet Cliffside Park
neighborhood. She has a tracheostomy
tube in her throat and a body brace to help
straighten her spine. There is an oxygen tank
and spools of wires and tubes nearby, an entire corner of the room filled with medical
equipment. She is surrounded by her beloved Magic School bus books, her room
‘I know
prostitution
is not a
legal thing,
but we’re the
friendliest,
the nicest,
the best that
there is in
New York City.’
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OMETIME IN THE NEXT few weeks, 7-year-old Antonia Verni
will wheel into Mrs. Tufford’s classroom in School No. 6 on
Oakdene Ave. in Cliffside Park, N.J. For the moment, at least, it
will mean that she won’t be the focal point of heart-rending headlines
and historic verdicts, and that her primary identity won’t be as the victim of a drunken carpenter who got wasted at a Giants game and put
her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
NEW YORK’S sex-for-sale
industry has taken some
hard hits in recent weeks.
Before authorities zeroed
in on alleged Long Island
madam Julie Moya, at least
two other big-time flesh peddlers were busted for running call-girl rings.
Jenny Paulino, the socalled Million-Dollar Madam,
is
charged
with farming
out
high-priced
hookers to
luxury prostitution
dens
in
Manhattan
high-rises.
After she
Jenny Paulino
was arrested
last
month, the Daily News got
a look at one of the opulent
lust nests with its stockpile
of condoms, hampers of
soiled sheets and a bedroom sign that read: “Tipping is appreciated.”
Paulino has hired O.J.
Simpson’s Dream Team lawyer Robert Shapiro to defend her against charges
that johns paid up to $2,500
to bed down her buxom employees. She claims she was
operating a legitimate escort service.
That’s the same defense
offered by Jason Itzler, who
allegedly
raked
in
millions by
pimping
out floozies
through his
Worth St.
agency, NY
Confidential.
Itzler, a
law school
Jason Itzler
grad who
lived in Hoboken, N.J.,
promised customers “The
Ultimate Girlfriend Experience” on his racy Web site
and in magazines.
The ads were effective: Itzler allegedly had 100 hookers in his stable who
wouldn’t get into bed for
less than $800 an hour.
But they also caught the
attention of vice cops, who
arrested seven of his employees and then tracked
him down to his hideout in
a Chelsea hotel.
Tracy Connor
The fugitive
madam says
ring ‘nicest’
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BY WAYNE COFFEY
Closing
down the
love dens
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Despite record lawsuit,
little girl pays ultimate
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